Movie · 2007
A Secret
“A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret.”
Released 3 October 2007 105 min Drama More from 2007 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his "Aryan" appearing parents. His athletic father labored to stamp out stereotypical Jewish characteristics he perceived in his son, to keep the family's many secrets, as most relatives fought in World War II, and later were hauled off to labor and death camps by the Gestapo.
FR·01
How old were they?
Sam Garbarski
as Joseph
Yves Jacques
as Le commandant Beraud
Patrick Bruel
as Maxime Nathan Grinberg / Grimbert
Yves Verhoeven
as Guillaume
Mathieu Amalric
as François Grimbert at 37 years old
Nathalie Boutefeu
as Esther
Julie Depardieu
as Louise
Cécile de France
as Tania Stirn / Grimbert
Ludivine Sagnier
as Hannah Golda Stirn / Grinberg
Claire Romain
Orlando Nicoletti
as Simon à 7 ans
Valentin Vigourt
as François à 7 ans
Quentin Dubuis
as François à 14 ans
Robert Plagnol
as Robert Stirn
Laura Presgurvic
as L'amie de Louise
FR·02
The numbers
47years between the oldest and youngest billed
59Sam Garbarski — oldest on the call sheet
12Claire Romain — youngest billed
39average age of the credited cast